SheFallsSoftly

These days I spend my time looking for your confessions, written on water or wind
If I walk the seas, or stand through the storm, maybe it will come to me then.
If in the taste of ocean spray, the feel of wind whipping through a sheer cotton skirt,
In the reflection from a looking pool, the shadow from a sycamore,
Or the shape of a snowflake there is an answer
Or, lacking the answer, just the shape of the question
Then, I will pack up four seasons worth of clothing
Heavy knit heather sweaters,
Strappy leather flip flops,
Mittens, a cardigan,
A toe ring
Scarves
Bikinis
Stuff it tight into my suitcase with wheels that squeak, squeak, squeak
With each slow step I take, and even without a kiss for memory
Or a sweet word of parting, I won’t send you a postcard
No sunset landscape, no wish you were here,
I will leave you, be lonely
Walk miles to places we
Have never been
Europe, Africa
The Arabian
Peninsula
China
South carolina,
Listen to the wind
Watch the water
And wait.
Is this where
Your meaning
Has gone to?
Fluid, fleeting
I’ll leave you
I’ll find us.

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